Drug moral panics are not new. They often involve so called epidemics or drugs that have effects that read like the “taglines for a graphic novel B-movie adaptation”. The most recent moral panic involved ‘Monkey Dust’. On the 8th of… Continue Reading →

What a stroke of luck for Australian editors that three winsome blondes have been jailed for dealing methamphetamine in the same city. But the Woman’s Day exposé on Wangaratta’s ‘ice queens’ (an irresistible term also used by the Herald Sun… Continue Reading →

Media reports last week linked the use of “nangs” to the death of a teenager at schoolies week on the Gold Coast. Hamish Bidgood died when he fell from a balcony. He and his friends had reportedly been using “nangs”… Continue Reading →

The funding of new drug education programmes should be a national priority, but for these programmes to have their intended impact, it is important that they are grounded in education based on harm reduction, rather than education based on drug… Continue Reading →

Reporters are once again exaggerating and misrepresenting illicit drug use by retaining focus on prime time’s favourite drug scapegoat, methamphetamine. Last year, the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) published its first National Wastewater Drug Monitoring report. AOD Media Watch provided… Continue Reading →